D.A.: Move won't affect Monsey rabbi's case

10:37 PM,
Jun. 16, 2013

Shlomo Ettlinger's photo is featured on the online petition about the Monsey man's alleged drug dealing.

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Concerned about drug use in the Orthodox Jewish community, more than 130 people have signed a petition urging Rockland County prosecutors to take a hard line against a Monsey man charged with selling drugs.

The petition organized on the website change.org calls for prison time for Shlomo Ettlinger as a deterrent. The petition features a photo of Ettlinger and is signed by local residents and a dozen Orthodox rabbis, including those from the Rabbinical Council of America and the Orthodox Jewish Union.

Ettlinger, a member of the Nanach Breslov Hasidim, was charged in April with possessing 2 ...